Antique Fine Cast Japanese Edo Bronze Kagami Mirror Tortoise Crane

As with ALL of our listings this is the vintage, real McCoy. This is NOT a copy, NOT a modern day replica. Well cast Japanese Edo period round-form bronze kagami (mirror) decorated in relief with a motif of cranes among pines.

The perforated central boss, which is designed to hold a tassel, is in the form of a minogame (tortoise). Two cranes reach toward each other with their beaks to kiss the head of the tortoise. This decorative motif has been attributed to the Momoyama period (16th/17th century). For centuries, mirrors were customarily given to temples and shrines as offerings to deities. According to Merrily Baird in "Symbols of Japan: Thematic Motifs in Art and Design, ".

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